Urban Fieldwork Lecture Notes

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What is one advantage of using a qualitative fieldwork method like an environmental quality survey?

Allowed gathering opinions from a range of local people to compare each site.

What is one limitation of using the qualitative fieldwork method regarding environmental quality surveys?

Opinions may be subjective and not accurate.

What is one advantage of using a quantitative fieldwork method such as traffic counts?

Allowed determining how the number of vehicles changed with distance from the CBD.

What is one limitation of using the quantitative fieldwork method, traffic counts?

Vehicles could be counted more than once, making results less accurate.

What is one advantage of using systematic sampling in a geographical investigation?

To have an even spread of sites, allowing identification of changes with distance from the CBD.

What is one risk you considered before carrying out data collection at the chosen location?

Traffic accidents were prevented by always using pedestrian crossings.

Why might there have been an anomaly in pedestrian count data?

The same person may have been counted more than once, making it appear more busy then it was.

Explain two ways you tried to ensure that your data collection methods were accurate.

1. The same students collected the data at each site to ensure the method remained consistent. 2. Our survey had a large range of options in each category so that people could give a more precise judgement of the environmental quality.

Explain one way the secondary data you collected supported your investigation.

To compare our environmental quality results for the same sites to see if they had changed over time.

Explain one advantage of the type of graph you used to present your data.

Allowed us to display lots of different data on one chart in order to make direct comparisons between each site.

Explain one limitation of the graph you used to present your data.

The large amount of data on the graph made it difficult to identify clear trends between sites.

How does the question 'How does the environmental quality of Manchester change with distance from the CBD?' help your investigation?

This question allowed us to focus on a main aim of our investigation, which meant that we chose methods that allowed us to explore changes in environmental quality in order to be able to see if it changed with distance from the CBD.

Evaluate the effectiveness bar grapghs used to present data

Bar graphs allowed us to display lots of different data on one chart in order to make direct comparisons between each site. However, the large amount of data on the graph made it difficult to identify clear trends between the sites.